fatvegan

I went to help out the Greens on election day. It was going to be with Libby at Asquith, but it ended up being with Rachel at Hornsby South. It was a fun day. We handed out how-to-vote leaflets and tried to reveal as little as possible when people asked us policy questions. Our little stall didn't have a single policy brochure so when people asked us things like "How do the Greens feel about seal clubbing?" we had no idea. It's one of those tricky questions where the Greens could go either way. Seal clubbing increases the number of fish in the ocean, but it reduces the number of happy baby seals. You can never tell if it's Greener to love fish or love baby seals.

Cath was a good candidate. Better, I think, than the one at the last election. She was definitely more photogenic than Judy Hopwood and the Shooters Party fellow. I guess it goes to show that in politics it's not always the most photogenic person who wins.

I made friends with the guys from the Shooters Party. I spent most of the day chatting to one fellow about hunting. He had untold numbers of amusing anecdotes about hitting or failing to hit animals with bullets. He invited me to go hunting with him. Probably too late in the day I told him that I was vegetarian, and probably wasn't likely to start shooting at living things. But when he suggested I go visit them at the rifle range I was keen. They said they'd lend me a gun, but I had to get a shooting license.

Rachel and I had really tasty [non-vegan] margarita pizza for lunch. It was only $10 for a giant one and it was huge. There was a Chinese chap standing next to us in the queue. He announced that the pizzas there were excellent. And so cheap! He was really excited about how cheap they were. Very very excited. I asked him if it was the first time he'd been there. He told me he came there all the time.

It rained towards the end and we had to huddle with the Liberals and Christian Democrats under an eave. Rachel and I were going to do scrutineering, but we arrived a few minutes too late. So we went to the pub while we waited for Libby to finish her scrutineering.

We finished up with a party at Cath's house. We watched Peter Debnam on TV. I've never seen him talk before. He's a bit embarrassing. Then we went home and watched Green Wing. It was all tops.